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...same day, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband spoke of how "brilliant" it was to see monks march on Saturday to the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of the independence hero who led Burma's struggle against the British. Suu Kyi has spent much of the past 18 years under house arrest. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) won elections back in 1990, but the generals refused to honor the results. "It will be a hundred times better," said Miliband, "when she takes her rightful place as the elected leader of a free...
...country during the era of foreign subjugation, then bringing them home to the motherland, has become an important show of status. Like endowing a university or hospital, it wins official gratitude. But more deliciously, it can make headlines as the world oohs and ahs over sums spent. In 2006, Hong Kong petroleum executive Alice Cheng paid $19.4 million for a prized decorated bowl, shattering the previous world record for Qing dynasty porcelain. In late September, Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho spent $8.9 million on a bronze horse head looted by British and French troops from Beijing's old Summer Palace...
...much damage to Britain's economy, and while Conservatives and Liberal Democrats flounder. Brown has wrong-footed his opponents who expected him to move Labour to the left. Instead he has co-opted advisers from across the political spectrum, strengthening Labour's claim to the center ground. Liberal Democrats spent much of their own September conference, in the south-coast resort of Brighton, locked in private debates about whether they would fare better with a younger, more charismatic man at the helm (LibDem leader Sir Menzies "Ming" Campbell is 66). Yet youth and charisma have not enabled Tory leader David...
...Even when there was nothing to praise Rwanda for, really. Under [former hardline Hutu President Juvenal] Habyarimana's government, people were talking about how Rwanda is peaceful, Rwanda is stable. But our people were just living on hand-outs. Now, the question comes for our donors and partners: having spent so much money, what difference did it make? In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion in aid to Africa. But what is there to show for it? And the donors should ask: what are we doing wrong, or, what are the people we are helping doing wrong...
...moving to Denmark to take advantage of a government program designed to draw much needed doctors. But last July, Minikel was promoted at her U.S. hospital to the coveted post of residency director. So in October, Balle will visit for five weeks--the longest stretch they've ever spent together. She hopes he'll eventually move to the Bay Area. For now, they're keeping their passports handy...